greatquux
Re:With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's ...
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:49PM (#50322535)
The latter Evangelion episodes seemed similar (but not quite as crazy as Lain). Apparently they're making a follow-up series too!
Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:44PM (#50098510)
If you are remote, I recommend taking all the time you save with AI and watching random highly-rated video essays on youtube. :-) It's sounds like I'm kidding, but continually learning and engaging with education and criticism has kept my brain working in ways that make me happy. Getting into a new art form (I've been buying a lot of manga recently) and learning about it is exciting.
Re:Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:37PM (#50098472)
I'm pretty happy being invisible these days. I have to balance my business, family, friends, hobbies and interests (I particularly enjoy going to jamband concerts, cooking for my family, and I've really gotten into anime and manga lately). Sometimes I feel a little guilty being invisible because we kinda need to speak up as much as we can these days, but to me, invisibility is an asset that allows me to enjoy life.
Re:AI CEO Interviews (2026) [video]
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:39PM (#49915878)
This channel is so underrated
Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading?
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:02PM (#49903073)
"The Dictionary of the Khazars" by Milorad Pavić - maybe the first "hypertext" novel; certainly could be one if it was electronic. You can read the entries in any order really and you wind up putting together everything that happens like a giant jigsaw puzzle. That'll keep your brain strong!
Re:The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center po...
on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:46PM (#49666989)
Once the economics work out, the economy as a whole doesn't, therefore the economics DOESN'T WORK OUT.
Re:The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center po...
on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:45PM (#49666976)
Exactly. The "my" in "my backyard" can apply to everyone therefore nothing gets built. The alternative is everything gets built. There has to be a middle ground, which is what zoning laws are meant to accomplish. We have buildings and multi-family housing going up in our town too, but we also have historically-protected buildings on the main street that require some more work if you want to do stuff with them. This is a good balance.
Re:I Go to the Cloud [video]
on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:58PM (#49648686)
I love Kai
Re:Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:16PM (#49591889)
Yes! Came here to recommend Max. His cookbook is also educational and interesting and some of the recipes are even good! :-)
Re:How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods
on Friday July 31, 2026 @04:12PM (#49128031)
I remember when I first learned about the difference between spatial and frequency domains. I didn’t actually get it fully during class. But during the walk home I had to stop and sit down and think about it… I started to “refactor” all of human history into frequency changes! It’s a pretty interesting concept.
Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No Agenda has ...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:37PM (#49013072)
Damn.. images of glossy PC Magazines that I used to read are filling my head.. growing up in the 80s & 90s with computer building and reselling as the family business, and just being excited about new technology, and he was a part of that.
Re:AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices,...
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @07:32PM (#48115955)
if only i could open a terminal session on another computer somewhere and have it continue running even if my laptop goes to sleep... hmmmm... i'm sure no one has ever thought of this before because i'm so genius so i'll vibecode it tonight! /s
(now how do i work the name screen or tmux into the joke?)
Re:I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @06:59PM (#48089026)
twinBASIC and radbasic are two projects trying to clone it. But it's definitely harder to do than either anticipated. I still support VB6 apps (some of which are bumping up against the limit of the EXE size!) and I'd love a replacement, but it's slow going!
Re:For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
on Saturday May 09, 2026 @06:30PM (#48078902)
It's very hard for Phish fans to only provide ONE example. :-). I will try to limit my suggestions to only 3.
This is a version of "Sand" from their trancey period and I would think makes for good coding time: https://youtu.be/B73cbfHSuH8?si=WPOI5pYYOfPg7OAi
Here's a rocking version of "Ghost" into a ballad "Mountains in the Mist" from 2003: https://youtu.be/7cMwsBUHjq0?si=5_p64FSvsY08dw0E
This is a multi-section crazy of "Simple" from 2021 where it really seems like aliens have landed: https://youtu.be/wF2j2UPLlA8?si=KWvvL3MlLFpc-LHy
Re:Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:28PM (#48011883)
I use Notepad++ on WINE and it works very well, doubtless it could be done on macOS too.
Re:For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:36PM (#47998673)
It’s a full band improvisation when at its best not just guitar noodling thank you very much
Taskrabbit for Witches – $100K MRR (estimated)
Re:Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:34PM (#47628805)
"Classic" was never very stable to begin with, and seems to be getting less stable every monthly patch cycle. Decades-old problems remain unfixed, and "new" Outlook still doesn't have all the features of the old one (or compatibility with in-house programs that use MAPI integration, or COM add-ins). "Classic" must have been such a spaghetti-fied mess that they thought they couldn't actually fix it at all and needed to replace it. But I'm not sure that's really the solution... is it ever?
Re:Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram
on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:44PM (#47314391)
You absolutely can run 32bit Solaris in qemu SPARC emulation. 64bit is not there yet unfortunately. But definitely dd this and get it virtualized!
Re:RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001)
on Sunday February 08, 2026 @03:53PM (#46938404)
I stole this handle from GLS many many years ago and I use it pretty much everywhere. I guess I just love the idea of metasyntactic variables, and using that phrase whenever anyone asks me about my handle!
Re:Microsoft 365 Outage
on Thursday January 22, 2026 @03:38PM (#46724835)
At least they've updated a public site like https://status.cloud.microsoft so I can show this to all my clients who are calling (most of them can't login to the admin portal, which is down anyway). Let's all just go to the bar!
Re:Mullvad VPN: "This is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt."
on Sunday December 21, 2025 @03:08PM (#46347948)
Yep they are great! Wireguard support on Linux too
Unix v4 Tape Found
Dark patterns killed my wife's Windows 11 installation
Re:Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @04:25PM (#45267493)
Sure, but how the heck do his adopted kids factor into this?
Re:An Efilist Just Bombed a Fertility Clinic. Was This Bound to Happen?
on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:51PM (#44025891)
Ah, classic nihilism. I first encountered it in high-school literature class reading Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons". Good times. (Of course now you'd probably get a quick TikTok explanation and that's all.) I probably mix in a bit of that, a bit of "apatheism", some epicureanism (the original version), and a dash of solipsism (just a dash mind you), and I find myself pretty comfortable. Going to lots of jam band concerts helps too.
Re:An Efilist Just Bombed a Fertility Clinic. Was This Bound to Happen?
on Sunday May 18, 2025 @07:28PM (#44025070)
It's true, though I try not to do this, I really try. But it's so easy for some kids (like my 11-year old firstborn) to just go play Roblox or Pokemon or watch stupid shorts on YouTube unless I'm enforcing some activity for him. And yeah I have screen time restrictions. It's a constant battle with him. We spend quality time with him for sure, and the taekwondo and drum lessons are great extra activities. But he only has one best friend he has regular hanging out time with, and one neighbor kid he knows that he plays with due to less people around us having kids. Family has spread out too, also due to needing to have dual incomes and car culture. So yeah all these contribute to the birth rate going down, but it's not so much parents fault entirely as it is the modern world's.
Re:Vibe Interview with King of AI Coding (Replit CEO) [video]
on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @02:02PM (#43708508)
I laughed all the way through this, it's brilliant.
Re:Bored of It
on Friday April 04, 2025 @08:10AM (#43581080)
The best song that starts off with that quote: https://youtu.be/UryTypo2qeU?si=CdTPe0ufnktLB_6i
“ I Should Be Allowed to Think” by They Might Be Giants
Change a couple words here and there and it’s talking about social media